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 CHAP. II.

for this purpose were immediately made, and having been charged by the marquis to give a wink to his confort on my return to the lodge, she seemed perfectly to understand it.

"After supper the baron refused his rhodomontades, and swore, that neither hell nor all the devils in it should ever frighten him; the protested, that he only threw himself on the ground to frighten me when I came down stairs, that he felt himself highly diverted with our fears, and was only sorry for the lady who had fainted.

"Here our hostess, with admirable naiveté, observed, that he was by no means such a free-thinker, as some of the company. Being pressed to explain, she assured us, that almost every night, between twelve and one o'clock, there was such a noise in the chapel belonging to the castle, as if it was falling to ruins. Here a loud laugh, which the marquis set